Sarah Parcak is the 2016 TED prize winner. She's a space archaeologist. What's that mean? She uses imaging from space to identify archaeological sites that have not been discovered before. She's found thousands and says that there are millions to be found everywhere and that it seems that anywhere she looks she finds ancient archaeological troves.

She uses a variety of imaging technologies-- infra-red thermal imaging and imaging that looks for chemical variations. Vegetation growing over ancient man-made structures has a different, less healthy chemical signature than vegetation not growing over ancient structures.

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Here's a short interview she did with Steven Colbert. Colbert characterized her as the person to put Indiana Jones out of business. The image Colbert is holding is a space archeology image of the lost Egyptian city that was referred to in Indiana Jones. It has not been explored yet.

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Below Sarah Parcak gives a short TED talk, describing her search for the capitol of ancient Middle Kingdom Egypt, how she started with NASA images and then went to the site the mages identified and using coring to go down to a level about 4000 years old, where pottery and evidence of an ancient jewelry shop were found.

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media. He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.